Craig Collisson

Craig Collisson has taught U.S. racial and ethnic history at Colorado universities including the University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He particularly enjoys teaching courses on the civil rights movement and immigration. His research focuses on how black students, along with many allies, changed universities in the late 1960s by (among other things) initiating minority recruitment programs, making the curriculum more diverse, and creating Offices of Minority Affairs.

Author's Entries

  • Japanese American Wartime Incarceration in Oregon

    Masuo Yasui, together with many members of Hood River’s Japanese community, spent the evening of December 6, 1941, rehearsing the annual Christmas show at a local community center. Yasui, an Issei (first-generation immigrant from Japan), had traveled to America in 1903 at the age of sixteen. He eventually settled in …

    Oregon Encyclopedia